“Now that we’ve see a 600 gig botnet, we have to plan that within one to two years, those are going to become common,” Martin McKeay, a member of Akamai’s security intelligence team, told Ars. “They may not be every attack, but we will see a dozen of them a quarter, we’ll see a couple hundred of them a year. Now that people know those are a possibility, they’re going to start pushing in that direction. They’re going to make it happen.”

Previously, the previous highest DDoS attack Akamai had seen was 363 Gbps.

Internet connected cameras have been known to contain exploitable software flaws, such as the CCTV-based botnet reported last spring.